Hezbollah has confirmed the killing of its head of media relations, Muhammad Afif, "along with a number of his brothers, in a treacherous Zionist aggression on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Sunday afternoon."
The Israeli army bombed the central Beirut neighborhood of Ras al-Nabaa shortly after 1 p.m., targeting the offices of the Syrian Baath Party's Lebanon branch, with Afif and his deputy Mahmoud al-Sharkawi both present.
According to LBCI, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri received Hezbollah's response to the cease-fire proposal relayed by the U.S. administration at 8 p.m. this evening, and is due to forward it to the U.S. embassy, which will in turn send Hezbollah's response back to Washington.
Depending on what Hezbollah has agreed or not agreed to, the scheduled visit to Beirut by U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein this week may or may not go ahead.
⚡ Caretaker Minister of Education Abbas Halabi has called on all schools, including public and private universities, in the districts of Beirut, Chouf, northern Metn, Baabda and Aley to suspend in-person classes and conduct them online instead, on Monday, Nov. 18, and Tuesday, Nov. 19, according to an official statement.
The minister urged the heads of the schools, colleges, vocational training establishments and universities affected by the closure to exercise caution, ensure safety and follow the statements issued by the ministry.
⚡ The Israeli strike on Mar Elias killed two people and injured 13, according to an updated toll from the Ministry of Health.
According to news outlet Nidaa al Watan, the strike targeted a Hezbollah official, Mahmoud Madi. The party has yet to make a statement about both the strike in Mar Elias and the strike earlier in the day against Ras al-Nabaa, which killed the head of its media office, Mohammad Afif.
A woman living within sight of the the Israeli bombing in Mar Elias told L'Orient Today that from her balcony, she saw a car and the Madi Technology Store hit with missiles.
"In the space of twenty seconds, I heard the three or four strikes, one after the other," she says. "The apartment shook for a long time. There was smoke from the car and also from the store building."
The woman says that even though she was scared, she believes "it's only an assassination," and that Mar Elias "is not like the southern suburbs of Beirut, otherwise I'd have left."
The Israeli army announced that its air force had bombed six "military targets" in the southern suburbs of Beirut today, including "weapons storage facilities, command centers and other military infrastructure" used by Hezbollah.
"Prior to the raids, a series of steps were taken to reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties, including advance intelligence gathering, the use of aerial photographs, and advance warnings to evacuate the area," the statement, posted on the army's Arabic-language spokesperson's X account.
According to International Humanitarian Law, evacuation warnings do not absolve a military from being guilty of carrying out operations that disproportionately affect civilians.
The statement also did not mention the strikes carried out against Beirut today, which were done without warning, in the Ras al-Nabaa and Mar Elias neighborhoods.
⚡ The Israeli attack against Mar Elias has killed at least one person and wounded nine others, with two of the injured in critical condition, according to the Ministry of Health.
In Mar Elias, a fire continues to rage in the wake of the Israeli attack. An electronics store was hit and secondary explosions can be heard, reportedly the result of burning batteries and electronic devices, according to al-Jadeed.
Initial reports coming out after the Israeli strike in Mar Elias are contradictory. Some reports mention two simultaneous strikes in the same area, targeting a building and a car, while the National News Agency refers to a strike on the building housing the al-Jamaa al-Islamiya center.
In a call with our reporter, al-Jamaa al-Islamiya MP Imad Hout denied all reports that the strike on Mar Elias was an attack against the party, particularly asserting that secretary-general Mohammad Takkoush had not been in the area at the time of the strike.
🔴 Second Israeli strike against Beirut proper today targeted the Mar Elias neighborhood, south of Hamra and west of Tariq al-Jdideh, according to witnesses and local media. There was no evacuation warning issued prior to this attack.
⚡ Israeli attacks killed 29 people in Lebanon yesterday, the Health Ministry announced, bringing the total death toll from Israeli aggression since October 2023 to 3,481 people.
A series of photos showing the impact, explosion and destruction of a building in Hadath, by an Israeli bomb, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, at 7:40 a.m. on Nov. 17, 2024. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient Today)
Updates from our correspondent in southern Lebanon:
• Intense and continuous artillery shelling has targeted Khiam (Marjayoun), accompanied by heavy airstrikes. Clashes and repeated attempts by the Israeli army to advance are ongoing from the southwestern and southeastern borders of Khiam, local residents reported.
• In Bint Jbeil district: Israeli warplanes launched two airstrikes targeting Haris and Kafra, and artillery shelling targeted Rishaf and Yater.
• A woman from the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa was killed in the airstrike that targeted the Ras Al-Nabaa area in Beirut.
• In Saida district: Israeli jets bombed Marwaniyah and the outskirts of Anqoun.
• In Nabatieh district: The outskirts of Qaqaiyat al-Jisr, the towns of Kfar Roummane and Kfar Tibnit, and an area between Kfar Tibnit and Arnoun were bombed by the Israeli army
• In Sour district: Two airstrikes targeted the town of Qana, one hit the road leading to Tayr Harfa, Jibbayn, and Shihine.
The Israeli military announced that an officer and a soldier from the Nachshon Regiment, Kfir Brigade, were killed during combat in an exchange of fire with Palestinian fighters in northern Gaza yesterday, Reuters reports. The two soldiers were 22-year-old platoon commander Captain Yogev Pazy, and 21-year-old Staff Sergeant Noam Eitan. Another soldier was severely wounded in the same battle, the army added.
Thirty-six soldiers from the Lebanese Army have been killed by the Israeli army since the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel began in October 2023, according to an announcement by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
“With the martyrdom of two more soldiers today as a result of the Israeli enemy directly targeting an army post in the town of al-Mari-Hasbaya, the number of army martyrs since the start of the Israeli aggression has risen to 36,” Mikati said.
The soldiers "gave their lives defending the nation's land," Mikati said. The Lebanese Army is not directly involved in the war, which was, for almost a year, relatively contained to cross-border fighting.
A man comforts another whose head is bandaged, wounded by the Israeli airstrike that hit the Syria Baath Party's Lebanese office in central Beirut's Ras al-Nabaa neighborhood on Nov. 17, 2024. (Credit: Matthieu Karam/L'Orient Today)
Palestinians flee as Israeli military operations intensify in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, Nov. 17, 2024. (Credit: Stringer/Reuters)
An Israeli air strike on a multi-story residential building in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, killed dozens of Palestinians and wounded many more this morning, Middle East Eye reports.
The government media office in Gaza put the number of those killed at 72. It said the strike hit a residential building that housed members of six families.
An update from our correspondent in southern Lebanon:
• In Marjayoun district, two Israeli strikes targeted Khiam, a border village that has seen intense ground fighting in the last two weeks.
• In Bint Jbeil district, Israel targeted Khirbet Selm’s city hall, destroying it.
• In Sour district, Israeli artillery shelling targeted the outskirts of Bazourieh and Kallet Aantar, on the outskirts of Ain Baal, and an airstrike hit Shamaa.
The Lebanese Army confirmed on X the death of the soldier seriously wounded in the Israeli strike against one of its positions in Mari, southern Lebanon. The death toll from the attack now includes two soldiers, with two others wounded, with 13 soldiers killed by Israel since Sept. 23.
An Israeli airstrike that "directly" targeted a Lebanese Army position today killed one soldier and wounded three others, one of them seriously, the army announced.
"The Israeli enemy directly targeted" a military position in al-Mari, in southern Lebanon, the army announced on its X account. This is the twelfth Lebanese soldier to be killed since the start of open warfare between Hezbollah and Israel on Sept. 23.
Hezbollah announced that it launched missiles at a group of Israeli soldiers near the Ramim barracks, which houses the headquarters of an infantry battalion.
The Israeli strike on a Lebanese Army post in Mari hill in the Hasbaya district reported earlier, killed three soldiers, residents told our correspondent. Nonetheless, the official toll has yet to be confirmed, and the Lebanese Army has not released a statement detailing the attack yet.
"Israeli police have filed a draft indictment against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman, Eli Feldstein, and an [Israeli army] reservist in connection with the so-called BibiLeaks affair," Haaretz reported.
The two will remain in custody for five days until the indictment is submitted to the Lod District Court.
The primary suspicion in the BibiLeaks case centers on allegations that Feldstein unlawfully obtained classified documents from security officials. These documents were reportedly leaked to international media, framed in a way that supported the narrative of Netanyahu’s office. Prosecutor’s representative Adi Arad told the court on Saturday that the suspects’ actions caused “serious harm to state security.”
Here are the latest updates on Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon:
- A drone strike targeted Bazourieh, in the Sour district, and initial reports indicated that there were casualties, reported our correspondent.
- Airstrikes targeted Beit Yahoun and Aita al-Jabal, in the Bint Jbeil district.
Hezbollah announced that it launched missiles at a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the eastern outskirts of Khiam, in southern Lebanon's Marjayoun district at 2 p.m.
In a provisional toll, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced that the Israeli strike on Ras al-Nabeh, Beirut, killed one person and wounded three others.
Latest developments in southern Lebanon:
-An Israeli drone carried out a strike on a team of rescue workers from the Islamic Health Committee, affiliated with Hezbollah, in Hanawai, in the Sour district. A paramedic was killed and two others injured.
- The Israeli air force also carried out a strike on an area between Bablieh and Ansar, in the Nabatieh district.
- An Israeli drone struck a Lebanese Army post on Mari hill in the Hasbaya district, as well as a farm in Shiri, causing casualties.
The situation in South Lebanon, according to our correspondent in the region:
- Two airstrikes targeted the area around the town of Kharayeb, in the Saida district. The explosions were heard as far away as the city of Saida.
- Israeli artillery fire on the outskirts of Tayr Harfa and Jibbein (Sour district).
Hezbollah's head of media, Mohammad Afif, was "by coincidence" in the building hit in Ras al-Nabeh, according to statements by the secretary-general of the Syrian Baath, Ali Hijazi, to the Al Mayadeen pan-Arab channel, aligned with Hezbollah. He added that Afif had already received death threats through certain local and Arab media.
Ali Hijazi also revealed to Al Mayadeen that "a person recently arrested for spying for Israel confessed to having been in charge of filming the Baath Party and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Raouche" before the Israeli strike on Ras al-Nabeh.
Ali Hijazi told LBCI that he was the target of threats.
According to security sources quoted by Al Jazeera, a "group from the media office" of the party was in the targeted building at the time of the strike.
The Israeli strike earlier on Mari, in the southern Lebanese Hasbaya, district killed three people, including two-year-old twins and their father, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. It added that one person was injured in the attack.
"I was 30 meters from the attack," a man on a motorcycle tells our local reporter Lyana Alameddine. "We heard a missile. They hit an important figure ... What was this man doing in our house? He was hiding among us and put us in danger," continued the native of the Ras al-Nabeh neighborhood. "The resistance at the front in South Lebanon is one thing. But hiding among us is quite another," he concluded.
The Syrian National Social Party (SNSP) has hailed "the hero" Mohammad Afif, head of Hezbollah's media office, whose death was reported by several security sources in the Israeli strike on Ras al-Nabeh in Beirut. Hezbollah has not confirmed his death yet.
Israeli strike in Khiam, Marjayoun (Credit: Photo sent by residents to our correspondent)
Latest developments in South Lebanon:
- The villages of Malilkieh, Qleilee and Ramadiye (Sour district) were hit by Israeli aircraft, residents report.
- The area around Khiam (Marjayoun) was also targeted, while another strike targeted the entrance of the village.
⚡Several Israeli strikes targeted Beirut's southern suburbs a few minutes after the one on Ras al-Nabeh. They targeted Burj al-Barajneh and Haret Hreik, reported the state-run National News Agency.
Here's an update on the security situation in southern Lebanon:
- Three people were killed, and their bodies were recovered by the Civil Defense of the Risala Scouts, affiliated with Amal Movement, after the Israeli strike on Shabriha (Sour.)
- Israel targeted Samaiyah (Sour), residents reported.
- Two Israeli airstrikes targeted Aita al-Shaab, in the Bint Jbeil district.
(Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient Today)
Rescuers at the site of the Israeli strike on Ras al-Nabeh, central Beirut today.
The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, claimed on social networks that the Israeli air force had targeted "50 Hezbollah targets" in Beirut's southern suburbs over the past week. He claims that a strike carried out yesterday, destroyed a building where former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated on Sept. 27, previously lived. Nasrallah had been targeted in this building during the "second Lebanon war" in 2006, according to the spokesman, who claims that it had meanwhile been rebuilt and was being used "for terrorist purposes."
🔴Israeli strike in Beirut "killed Hezbollah's media chief, Mohammad Afif," two security sources told Reuters.
"The strike hit a neighborhood where many people displaced from Beirut's southern suburbs had been seeking refuge," Reuters reported.
🔴 The Israeli strike on Ras al-Nabeh, central Beirut, allegedly targeted the head of Hezbollah's media office, Mohammad Afif, said two security sources quoted by Reuters, alongside local media reports.
⚡ The secretary-general of the Syrian Baath Party, Ali Hijazi, confirmed on X that the Israeli strike on Ras al-Nabeh, central Beirut, targeted "a building of the party leadership." Hijazi added that he was not present at the scene at the time of the strike and that further details would be given later.
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Here's an update on the security situation in southern Lebanon:
- Israel targeted a three-story building in Azza, a building in Roumine and an open field in Arkay, all located in Nabatieh district, residents reported.
- Two Israeli strikes targeted the city of Nabatieh, local residents reported.
⚡ The strike in Beirut, Ras al-Nabeh, targeted the Lebanese office of the Syrian Baath Party, reported local news channels and AFP.
The official National News Agency (NNA) reported a strike on Ras al-Nabeh in Beirut but provided no further information.
Israeli attacks on residential buildings in Beit Lahiya, Nusseirat and Bureij in Gaza have killed 96 Palestinians since this morning, Gaza media office has said in a statement that condemned the attacks.
“The occupation army knew that these houses and residential buildings contained dozens of displaced civilians, most of whom were children and women,” the statement said.
The media office said that they hold Israel, as well as the U.S. administration, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and other “countries participating in the genocide” fully responsible for the “continuation of the ethnic cleansing war.”
⚡ An Israeli strike targeted an area between Ras al-Nabeh and Sodeco, right in the heart of Beirut, reported local channel al-Jadeed.
🔴 The Israeli army issued a new evacuation order to residents of three buildings in the Haret Hreik and Burj al-Barajneh neighborhoods, published by Avichay Adraee on X. This is the third evacuation notice for Beirut's southern suburbs today.
An Israeli strike carried out this morning at around 11 a.m. on Mari, an area in the Hasbaya district in southern Lebanon, killed a Syrian national and his two children, aged seven and eight, the mukhtar (local official) told our correspondent. The strike targeted the bedroom of a farmhouse where they lived and worked raising chickens.
A video circulating on social networks shows the damage caused by an Israeli strike on Haret Hreik, including the collapse of a pedestrian bridge.
Two Israeli airstrikes targeted Kafra and Yater, in southern Lebanon's Bint Jbeil, according to our correspondent.
Six protesters, including family members of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, were arrested during a demonstration in Jerusalem's Azza Street, near Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence, Haaretz reported.
The damage to transportation and communications infrastructure across Gaza has reached $4.8 billion as a result of direct Israeli attacks, Wafa news agency reported citing Palestine’s Minister of Transport and Communications Tariq Zourob.
At least 300,000 tons of "solid waste" are reportedly piling up on roads across the Gaza Strip, Zourob said during a meeting with private sector representatives from the strip at the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo.
At least 43,846 people have been killed and 103,740 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, the enclave’s health ministry announced today.
Of those, 47 Palestinians were killed and 139 wounded in the last 24 hours the ministry added.
Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza on Sunday reported 26 killed, including women and children, and at least 59 missing in an Israeli strike on a building in Beit Lahia in the north of the territory.
Following the strike, which took place in the middle of the night, 26 bodies were pulled from the rubble of the building, "including children and women," and at least 59 people are still trapped under the ruins, Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the Civil Defense, told AFP.
A new, loud detonation sound was heard in and around Beirut.
Two Israeli airstrikes targeted Zebqine and Shabriha, in the Sour district of southern Lebanon, reported our correspondent.
Hezbollah announced that it launched artillery shells on Israeli soldiers south of Shamaa, in southern Lebanon's Sour district, at 11:15 a.m.
Hezbollah announced that it conducted a total of 1,349 operations from Sept. 17 — the day of the simultaneous pager explosions carried out by Israel — until 3 p.m. on Nov. 16, with an average of 22 operations per day, resulting in over 100 dead and more than 1,000 wounded on the Israeli side. The statement adds that more than 100 Israeli localities were evacuated over a radius of 30 kilometers and a depth of 150 kilometers, displacing more than 300,000 people.
In terms of its operations during this period, Hezbollah reported launching 456 strikes against Israeli localities, 361 against military positions, 164 against military bases, 127 strikes on military sites on the border with Lebanon, 101 strikes on barracks, 58 on towns and 29 targeting drones or fighter jets. It claims to have repelled 25 attempts at ground advances and 28 attempted incursions.
The statement adds that Israel lost 61 military vehicles, 53 command centers, 30 artillery missile launch pads, 17 military factories, 11 training camps, 10 airports, 7 drones, 4 military warehouses, 4 fortifications, 2 settlements, 2 technical equipment units, 1 military workshop and 1 military dam.
The party added that it launched 1,047 missiles, 84 artillery shells, 65 guided missiles, 29 anti-aircraft shells, as well as 12 sniper's and machine-gun shells. The party's aviation unit reportedly carried out 124 attacks, while the military engineering corps carried out 10.
The Israeli army today called on more members of the ultra-Orthodox community to join forces to fight on the country's southern and northern borders, a decision that risks exacerbating tensions between religious and secular Israelis, Reuters reported.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that the Defense Ministry could no longer grant blanket exemptions to Jewish seminary students for the conscript army, an arrangement in place since Israel's creation in 1948, when the number of ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim, was tiny.
The Israeli Defense Ministry said on Friday that 7,000 members of the community would gradually receive notices, starting on Sunday. A statement from the ministry said it would work with community leaders to ensure that ultra-Orthodox soldiers could preserve their religious lifestyle while on duty.
"It's doubtful that this will happen anytime soon, given the opposition of the Haredi parties, the threats of retirement by various ultra–Orthodox spiritual leaders and the coalition's dependence on these figures," reported Haaretz.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Kerioth, an Israeli town north of Haifa, at 10:15 a.m.
Meanwhile, around an hour ago, Haaretz reported rocket sirens sounding in Haifa, Acre and a series of northern Israeli communities.
According to the National News Agency, the latest Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburb targeted a residential complex in the Haret Hreik.
Latest Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon:
- An earlier Israeli strike on a house in Marjayoun killed one person and wounded three others, reported our correspondent.
- White phosphorus munitions targeted Bayyada, between Sour and Naqoura.
A new detonation was heard in and around Beirut. Local media reported a new Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs.
According to the official National News Agency (NNA), Israeli strikes targeted the Haret Hreik neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs: one drone strike targeted an area near the Bayan school, and another very violent and powerful airstrike targeted an area between Jamous Street and the Hadi Nasrallah highway.
(Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient Today)
A new Israeli strike targeted Beirut's southern.
In another announcement, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a 6:30 a.m. attack on Israeli soldiers south of Khiam, in the Marjayoun district of southern Lebanon, with a salvo of missiles.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a missile strike carried out at 6 a.m. this morning against the Maale Golani barracks in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. This barracks is "the command headquarters of the Israeli army's Hermon 810 brigade," added the party.
Bodies of victims in the rubble of an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Nov. 17, 2024. (Credit: AFP)
The Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza announced this morning that 20 people, including four women and three children, were killed in Israeli airstrike, which also wounded dozens.
The deadliest strike, which killed 10 people, targeted a house in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP. At least one woman died and 10 people were injured in a separate Israeli strike on another house in the camp, he added. Another five people were killed and 11 wounded by a "missile launched by an Israeli drone this morning in the east of Rafah," in the south of the Palestinian territory, the spokesman added.
The latest developments in southern Lebanon reported by our correspondent in the region:
- Israeli aircraft bombed Blat, in the Marjayoun district
- At least five white phosphorous Israeli artillery shells targeted Kiam (Marjayoun). Numerous machine-gun salvos were fired and the sound of explosions resounded to the south-east of the town. Khiam and Blat had been mentioned in an earlier Israeli army evacuation notice to 15 villages in southern Lebanon.
Drone sirens sounded in several areas in central Israel, reported Haaretz, adding that a drone was intercepted from the east by the army.
The map posted on Haaretz, detailed that sirens sounded in the localities of Yavne, Kfar HaNagid, Ayanot, Irus and Ness Ziona
Two Israeli airstrikes targeted Debbine, in southern Lebanon's Marjayoun district, reported our correspondent in the region.
🔴The Israeli army's Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, issued a new series of evacuation warnings to four buildings in Haret Hreik neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs.
The notice includes four buildings in the neighborhood, which has been targeted daily in the past days. The buildings include: a building facing al-Bayan High School Hadat, another near al-Hassanayn Mosque, a third angled close to Ala Fak Institue, and the last facing St. Joseph Church.
🔴 The Israeli army has called on residents of 15 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate, in a post published by the army's Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, on X.
The villages are: Kfar Hamam, Kfar Shuba, Burj al-Moulouk, Khiam, Blat, Arnoun, Yohmor, Deir Seriane, Taybeh, Qseibeh, Kawthariyet al-Rez, Hmeireh, Mattarieh al-Shoumar and Kfar Tebnin.
Adraee added that residents must evacuate immediately and "move north of the Awali river."
Three suspects were arrested after two flares were fired yesterday evening near Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence — who was not present in his home — police and the Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service) said this morning.
The security service doesn't provide further information, adding that the courts had ordered a ban on publishing information about the investigation or the suspects' identities for a period of 30 days.
A video circulating on social media portrays the damage caused to the Sayedat al-Najat Church by today's Israeli strikes on Hadath, in Beirut's southern suburbs.
One person was injured due to the glass shattering in the church following the Israeli strike, a person reported in the video.
In southern Lebanon, two Israeli airstrikes targeted Tayr Harfa (Sour).
According to NNA, the Israeli air force also bombed the Burj al-Barajneh neighborhood between the Ali Nasser and Burj al-Hidaya School.
A new Israeli strike targeted the vicinity of Mar Mikhael Church in Chiyah, in Beirut's southern suburbs, local media reported.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported a powerful Israeli strike near Saint Georges Hospital in Hadath.
According to local media, church bells rang out in the morning to warn residents to evacuate the areas threatened by the Israeli army.
Beirut's southern suburbs were targeted by an Israeli strike, with explosions being heard in and around Beirut.
In Shamaa, in southern Lebanon's Sour district and almost seven kilometers from the Blue Line, violent clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli invading forces occurred yesterday.
At 11:15 p.m., Hezbollah announced that its fighters had ambushed Israeli soldiers east of the village, clashing with them using machine gun, artillery and rocket fire. Hezbollah's statement adds that the "close" range fighting "caused casualties," within the Israeli forces.
In southern Lebanon's Nabatieh district, an old house dating from 1885 and part of the town's architectural heritage was destroyed by Israeli attacks The building, known as the House of Sheikh Abd al-Rassoul Assi, was located in the Serail district.
Last night, in Arab Salim, in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh district: an Israeli strike targeted a house containing several members of the Hatab family, killing at least seven of the family members.
According to our correspondent, the victims of this attack are the father, Khalil Hatab, his wife Zeinab Moussa, their son Mohammad and his wife Fatima Ghamloush, and their three children: Khalil, Batoul and Ali Rida.
The family had just returned to the village after spending several days in Akkar, northern Lebanon.
Also last night:
- In the Jezzine district, Israeli strikes targeted Rihan, cutting electricity power in the region. Its army also bombarded Aramta and Mahmoudieh.
- In the Nabatieh district, airstrikes targeted Deir Zahrani, Zawtar al-Sharkieh, Kfar Hoz, Kfar Roummane, Haboush, Ansar, Roumin and Kfar Tebnit — while eight Israeli airstrikes targeted Jebsheet. Also, a person wounded in an earlier Israeli strike on Ebba succumbed to his injuries.
- In the Saida district, airstrikes targeted Adloun and Kharayeb.
- In the Sour district, airstrikes bombed Deir Antar, Hanine, Shehabieh, and the al-Rezz Complex, at the northern entrance of Sour.
- In the Hasbaya district, Israeli artillery fire shelled Wadi Berghoz.
- In the Bint Jbeil district, Burj Qallawieh was targeted by Israeli airstrikes.
- In the Marjayoun district, Israeli strikes hit Deir Antar and Blat.
In southern Lebanon since the morning, multiple Israel attacks were recorded:
- Three strikes targeted Hanine, in the Bint Jbeil district
- A drone strike hit a house in Marjayoun, district with the same name.
- Bombardments also targeted Toura (Sour), with artillery fire on Zebqine and the Hamoul area, near Naqoura, also sour district.
Last night, fighting continued between the Israeli army, attempting to infiltrate towards Khiam (Marjayoun) from the south-east of the village, and Hezbollah. Also, the village was shelled by Israeli artillery.
An hour after the Israeli calls to evacuate, several strikes targeted Beirut's southern suburbs. The first, carried out by a drone, targeted Hadath, according to local media.
Yesterday, four series of strikes had targeted Beirut's southern suburbs throughout. This area has been shelled regularly since the beginning of the week, day and night. Calls to evacuate had also been made on Saturday to some fifteen buildings in Sour, which had been heavily bombed even before the threats, and to some 15 villages in southern Lebanon.
At around 6.45 a.m., the Israeli army called on residents of three buildings in and around Beirut's southern suburbs to evacuate "immediately" ahead of strikes.
According to maps posted on the Israeli army's Arabic-speaking spokesman, Avichay Adraee, X accoing,the threatened buildings are located in:
- Hadath, facing Saint Georges Hospital and Notre-Dame de Bon Secours Church, 7
- Burj al-Barajneh, between Burj Hidaya School and Imam Reza School.
- Chiyah, opposite Mar Mikhael church.
"You are in the vicinity of Hezbollah infrastructure, against which the army will take action in the near future," the army threatened, calling on residents to evacuate "immediately" from at least 500 meters away.
These warnings have been condemned and deemed insufficient by multiple international rights groups.
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